Organisers: Dr Imogen Wiltshire and Dr Fransiska Louwagie
Keynote speaker: Dr Glen Sujo, author and curator of Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory, Imperial War Museum.
Fay and Judy presenting work as part of Panel 2: Art-Making, Process and Identity in session: Inner Recreation: Psychoanalysis and Second-Generation Visual Arts. Their paper examines the link between the need for reparation and the origin of the creative impulse, looking at psychoanalytic ideas on creativity. It will take as its case study two second-generation artist-daughters who collaborate, Judy Goldhill, brought up by parents and relatives affected by the Holocaust; Fay Ballard, whose father was placed in a Japanese internment camp during World War Two.
Supported by Association for Art History (AAH), Cultural Literacy Everywhere (CLE), Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and School of Arts, University of Leicester.